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True worship of the saints
20th March 1841, from 4:45 until 7:30 pm
The four daughters of Anselm Hüttenbrenner asked questions with the request for answers through Jakob Lorber. Marie asked: "In what way should the saints be venerated?" Wilhelmine: "How should one love the Lord?" Pauline: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and God was the Word – what does this introduction to John's Gospel mean?" Julie: "What is true humility?" Writers: The four sisters. The Lord graciously answered this through His servant as follows:
[1] Dear children! Is it so difficult to find what you want? When someone feels hungry, will it take him a long time to find some food to satisfy him? Or whoever thirsts, will he, driven by a burning thirst, wander from one spring to another and taste the waters that are suitable for quenching his burning thirst? Verily, he will remain at the nearest spring and quench his thirst there. Behold, this is also the case with you!
[2] That you are all still very hungry and thirsty in spirit, you will surely feel, if you only consult a little the understanding of your heart, which is the "stomach" of the spirit, and only ask yourselves a little about the essence of the things, which surround you innumerably, and about the inner life of the spirit, which is still completely unknown to you.
[3] Just look out at the great menu of creation and then into the great larder of the spirit, then it will no longer be difficult for you in the future, especially if you still consider that in My light, which is given to you through the living water from the well of Jacob, a tiny speck of sun-dust enlarges into a world.
[4] But if such a sun-dust particle becomes already so big and overfull of miracles unknown to you yet, how big will those things become to you at first, against which a sun-dust sinks into nothingness or loses itself as good as completely – in the view of only a grain of sand, let alone a plant, a tree, a mountain, an animal or also probably even a human himself!
[5] Now that you have been shown how you may more easily find a suitable food for your satiation in a future instance, I will now give you what you have been longing for after a rather laborious search.
[6] Therefore, as far as the veneration of the saints is concerned, I tell you nothing but this: Venerate by your love and humble obedience only the only Saint – so by such alone valid veneration also all saints known and unknown to you, will be venerated most perfectly! For to Me alone is due all honor, all exaltation, all thanks, all praise and all worship. Only through Me and in Me will all people be glorified, if they have first glorified My name in their hearts through true love and living faith in spirit and in truth.
[7] But so that you may understand this better and more thoroughly, remember that I alone am the door to life. And whoever does not enter through this door, is a thief and robber. Therefore, whosoever is weary and burdened, or is sick with infirmity, let him come unto Me, that I may feed and strengthen him. For he will never find such things anywhere else but with Me and in Me!
[8] As far as the second question is concerned – only he loves Me justly, who loves Me alone and his neighbor through Me. He who loves Me in this way is the one who loves Me in spirit and in truth! For how could he love Me otherwise, since I Myself am the eternal Spirit of all love, of all power and strength, and also the eternal Truth!
[9] But he who loves Me in this way is the one who keeps My commandments. But whoever keeps My commandments, to him I will come in My Trinity as Father, Son and Spirit and will take abode in his heart and will reveal Myself there through the living Word, which was in the beginning and was eternally and is with God. For God Himself was, is and will be eternally the Word, essential in all things, as the eternal life, love, light, power and might from eternity to eternity.
[10] But whoever loves Me in this way is also humble with all his heart. Or can a proud man love someone? Is it not rather the contempt of everything that surrounds him that lies at the basis of arrogance? The arrogant one does not want to see anything higher than himself; even if he cannot rise to the highest peak of delusion and still has to submit to a higher one, he does so only out of self- interest. And if he embraces someone with an apparent love, it is as if he wants to say: ‘Since I cannot rule you by force, I will capture you by cunning and make you my slave!’
[11] Likewise also the covetous man speaks to his friends, and likewise the vain worldly bridegrooms speak to their foolish brides; for all these only raise their favorites with the same intention as an eagle does a tortoise, in order to gain something by their fall afterwards!
[12] Behold, dear children, from all this it is evident that only the truly humble is able to love Me truly – i.e., in spirit and in truth!
[13] But he who loves Me, loves Me as the living, eternal Word, who is Jesus Christ, and eternal life, and all things through Him! But whoever loves Jesus Christ the crucified, and glorifies Him before the world and confesses Him with great joy of his heart, I also, as the same one and only Jesus Christ, will glorify and confess him before the Father, i.e. he will be transfigured in the presence of My divinity and all It's holiness.
[14] If then, whoever loves and glorifies Me, will be glorified again – surely all My members, which are the saints in the heavens, will not miss out on such glorification! For what I take, I do not take for Myself, but for you and for your brothers.
[15] Whoever gives something to Me, gives it to everyone. But he who gives it to another is a fool, for what he gives, he will not get back, nor will the gift reach those involved, but like an unripe fruit it will be trampled under the tree of life.
[16] Dear children, consider this gift not as a human one, but as one that is full of life! Take it well into your hearts and do it, and you will know that the Word is all in all, and how the Word is with God, and God Himself the Word is eternal! Amen.
[17] This is what this word says to you from Itself! Amen.